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Slave to the Scalpel (2021)
Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Featured Groove Metal Album
State Of Unrest (2023)
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Death-groove metal band from Coventry, England, formed in 2020. They blend death metal aggression with heavy grooves from the city that gave birth to Cathedral.
Death metal band from Valence in the Drome, France, formed in 2022. They deliver crushing death metal from the Rhone Valley.
Fort Smith's Charnal melds black and death metal into a vicious, unpolished hybrid with the raw edge typical of the Arkansas underground. Their recordings favor suffocating density over technical refinement.
Progressive death metal act from Wrocław, formed in 2019. Charnel blends technical complexity with death metal weight from the capital of Lower Silesia.
Florida's Charnel Grounds pursue technical death metal with surgical precision, wielding complex arrangements and intricate fretwork in the tradition of the Sunshine State's storied extreme metal scene. Their compositions reward close listening with layers of dense, disciplined brutality.
Queens death-thrash outfit Charnel House drew from New York's fertile extreme metal soil, combining the aggression of early thrash with the morbid textures of death metal. Their approach reflects the raw intensity that defined the New York underground in the genre's formative years.
Death metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2022. They channel charnel darkness through death metal from the Finnish capital.
Death metal act from Stockholm and Karlstad, formed in 2024. Charnel Stench delivers morbid, old-school death metal from two Swedish cities.
Death metal band from Marseille, France, formed in 2017. Their name meaning charnel house in French, Charnier deliver putrid death metal from the Mediterranean port city.
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